Chick lit author Kaavya Viswanathan, whose name we couldn’t pronounced even with a gun in our fishy faces, has copped to plagiarizing part of her first novel – sort of.

Accused of plagiarizing parts of the recently-published “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” told the New York Times that she had borrowed language from Megan McCafferty’s
books “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings.”

“Ms. Viswanathan added, “I wasn’t aware of how much I may have internalized Ms. McCafferty’s words.” She also apologized to Ms. McCafferty and said that future printings of the novel would be revised to “eliminate any inappropriate similarities.”

Need a translation of that last quote? That’s “eliminate any litigation.”

Elsewhere, Dan Brown, who’s facing yet another plagiarism case after handily winning his last one, made a rare public disclosure on Sunday which made headlines around the world:

“When stuck on points of the plot [of “The DaVinci Code”] Brown would dangle upside down from a pair of “gravity boots” to think it out, he told 850 people at the sell-out event presented by New Hampshire Public Radio and The Music Hall of Portsmouth on Sunday.”